image credit: art by Ray Fenwick for helpful Lion’s Roar staff article “What are the three marks of existence?”*
nothing is as it seems:
nothing doesn’t change
nothing isn’t dukkha
nothing depends on nothing
“it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing” (!gb)
to believe in nothing is to believe in being that is
empty of everything but the potential for anything
empty of everything but the potential for anything
unless you are asleep, unconscious, or dead,
you are aware of being
you are aware of being, like it or not,
if you are alive, conscious, and awake
you are aware of being
you are aware of being, like it or not,
if you are alive, conscious, and awake
Aldous Huxley, in his foreword to The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti:
Ama et fac quod vis. If you love, you may do what you will. But if you start by doing what you will, or by doing what you don't will in obedience to some traditional system or notions, ideals and prohibitions, you will never love. The liberating process must begin with the choiceless awareness of what you will and of your reactions to the symbol-system which tells you that you ought, or ought not, to will it. Through this choiceless awareness, as it penetrates the successive layers of the ego and its associated subconscious, will come love and understanding, but of another order than that with which we are ordinarily familiar. This choiceless awareness – at every moment and in all the circumstances of life – is the only effective meditation.*
if you are alive, conscious, and awake,
you need do no more than need be done
to be and let be, to live and let live
in this and every moment
with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity,
without comparing or judging,
in choiceless awareness**
“awareness of form, feelings, perceptions, and thoughts” (!?)
appreciation of the miracle of one’s own awareness – always present, requiring no conjuring up – has been “scribbled over with false images” (!?) / Robert Saltzman* 2020-09-01 17:40 (citing Q and A from February, 2018)*
appreciation of the miracle of one’s own awareness – always present, requiring no conjuring up – has been “scribbled over with false images” (!?) / Robert Saltzman* 2020-09-01 17:40 (citing Q and A from February, 2018)*
enjoy what you may, endure what you must (!?)
choiceless awareness is key to experiencing “dukkha with equanimity” (!?)
choiceless awareness is key to experiencing “dukkha with equanimity” (!?)
love, compassion, joy, and equanimity (!?)
*a link – see a note on notes and links